Installing the Freestyle Woodcarver by Arbortech

Roger Tulk

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I've just assembled the Freestyle Woodcarver to my angle grinder, which I have never used. Here are pictures of the assembly. If you have experience with this thing, I would appreciate your comments in case I have missed something.

This is the naked tool:
carver1.jpg

The lower bushing with the fibre washer from the kit. I needed the washer to remove some play in the cutter when assembled.
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The cutter in place.
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Nylon bushing that came with the kit. The assembly instructions were vague, but I couldn't tighten the blade without this, in this position.
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The upper bushing in place and tight.
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The whole shebang, with the auxiliary guard in place.
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I am not sure if this looks quite right, or what angle I am supposed to use the cutter at. With the auxiliary guard in place, it pretty well has to be at 90º. I'm not going to test it today, so I will receive any advice with great attention and thanks.
 
Not sure Roger but my guess would be to lose the plastic guard and go with it just like the way you have it in the 3rd picture.
The plastic shroud looks like it defeats the whole purpose of the grinder :dunno:
 
Hmm. With a little more digging I found a 39 sec. video. It looks the same as my getup, and apparently is presented to the wood at about an 80º angle. I'll try it out this week. I got it to make bum sockets for chairs.
 
I've used the carbide burr cutter on the angle grinder quite a bit. The third picture looks about right relative to my setup.

Make sure to keep both hands on the grinder until it spins down, there is quite a bit of centripetal force and it can jump if it's still turning and you rotate it (like when seeing it down). Lost a good chunk of finger that way!!!

Will be interested to see how you like it
 
Flip the nut, in the fourth picture, holding the whole thing on over, it will have more surface area touching the actual cutter and will be safer that way.

I've used them several times digging out rotten wood from floor joists, they work really well and man to they remove material. For your seat bottoms go real easy at first, in fact you should practise on some scrap first.
 
Looks like the drone version of the helicopter tree trimmer recently shown here.

Make it battery powered, attach it to your remote controlled drone and trim you hedges from your ez-chair!
 
Flip the nut, in the fourth picture, holding the whole thing on over, it will have more surface area touching the actual cutter and will be safer that way.

I've used them several times digging out rotten wood from floor joists, they work really well and man to they remove material. For your seat bottoms go real easy at first, in fact you should practise on some scrap first.

Thanks, Stu. If I'd looked at it harder, I might have realized that would work. It was kind of obvious once you pointed it out to me.

Jonathan, I wouldn't think of using this thing without the safety guard. I like my fingers, and legs, and other parts...
 
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